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2018-12-05 at 3:30 AM UTC in Are you good at job interviews?
Originally posted by Lanny I'm pretty good at the technical part of interviews, at least relative most people interviewing for the same kind of positions. And I'm not quite enough of a social retard to totally wreck that during soft skills type questions, so interviews tend to go pretty well for me.
I figure it's better to be up front about it: I don't really know what my employer's business goals are or how I'm going to make them happen, don't really care. I do my thing pretty well in an industry that has a lot of incompetents. Dentist doesn't need to know why his clients need healthy teeth and an attractive smile, Lanny doesn't need to know how your website or app or software package makes money.
That’s literally why there is an industry of people who are a go-between who translate business needs for users who don’t understand code into use cases for coders who don’t understand business needs and vice versa. -
2018-12-05 at 2:38 AM UTC in Are you good at job interviews?
Originally posted by esbity Learn to lie well. Make sure to have a story for every job that explains how good of an employee you are and how you planned your departure from the employer. Never admit to being fired. Give stories of your professionalism based on what you've seen from other coworkers. Make sure to add in achievements like Emplpyee Of The Month and various safety awards.
Look them in the eye during all of this and believe and live what you're telling them.
This, minus the lying. Have a handful of stories ready that you can apply to a variety of questions.
Focus on accomplishments and results more so than what your previous jobs were. You can mention a summary of what you did, but focus more on what you got done and how you did it.
Look up the STAR method for behavioral interviewing. STAR stands for Situation, Task, Action, and Result. Thinking like that will help you out. -
2018-12-04 at 3:49 PM UTC in Do you have your bed against a wall?
Originally posted by -mal- When did you show back up?
No one ever leaves.
Originally posted by vindicktive vinny then you wouldnt know which corner the boogeyman is going to come up from.
I have strategically placed strings and bells so I am always aware of my surroundings. I also use a salt perimeter. -
2018-12-04 at 6:23 AM UTC in Do you have your bed against a wall?My bed is in the center of the room, not touching any walls.
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2018-12-04 at 3:17 AM UTC in I wanna build a Tesla coil so powerful...
Originally posted by vindicktive vinny 3 ?
technology has improve i guess.
when i was working as installation technician for these things the largest was 1f, but that was close to 20 years ago.
but then again i live in a 3rd world country.
It was more than I needed, but I got a good deal on it. This was also 10 years ago, so who knows what kids these days are using. -
2018-12-04 at 3:07 AM UTC in US Bank
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2018-12-01 at 4:22 AM UTC in I wanna build a Tesla coil so powerful...
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2018-11-28 at 6:08 AM UTC in I wanna build a Tesla coil so powerful...All great bases have at least one well-placed tesla coil.
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2018-11-28 at 2:51 AM UTC in will I be poor forever?
Originally posted by gadzooks Well there are two major schools of thought on the subject:
1. "It's impossible to just 'pull yourself up from your bootstraps'." People who are born poor will always remain poor, due to capitalism or something like that.
2. Your lot in life is malleable and can be influenced by the decisions you make, and the things you truly commit yourself to.
Personally, I lean more to the second way of thinking.
I'm a self-taught computer programmer, using freely-available YouTube videos, a few books here and there, and a whole lot of dedication to hobby projects to gain experience.
If your career is not up to your ambitions/standards, you can always resolve to change that and put in some hard work and a little ingenuity.
You will also have to take risks.
But it is, at least in my opinion, possible to transcend from rags to "riches".
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2018-11-27 at 4:28 AM UTC in Do you want your change?
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2018-11-27 at 3:39 AM UTC in Do you want your change?
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2018-11-27 at 3:36 AM UTC in Do you want your change?
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2018-11-27 at 3:35 AM UTC in Purchasing your own debtMost contracted debt obligations have clauses in them stating that your debt can be sold or transferred.
The real fraud is committed by the fed. -
2018-11-27 at 3:31 AM UTC in Do you want your change?It’s a mind game. Depending on the job, you can get more in tips by asking if customers want their change. It’s harder for someone to say yes they want their change and pull out of a portion of it for a tip than it is to say keep the change.
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2018-11-25 at 9:29 PM UTC in Purchasing your own debtReminds me of this:
https://ripmedicaldebt.org/john-oliver-medical-debt/
@OP, for a debt collector to purchase your debt, you basically need to default on your shit. -
2018-11-25 at 7:12 PM UTC in Why do you post here?To see if I still bleed.
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2018-11-23 at 9:05 PM UTC in I don't wanna die without producing offspring.
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2018-11-19 at 6:14 PM UTC in So, my mom passed tonight.Sorry for your loss, OP.
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2018-11-17 at 5:41 PM UTC in People that only post in the tropical forums because they need Lanny to protect them
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2018-11-10 at 12:40 AM UTC in I'm gonna die of smoke inhalationCan’t you work remotely?
